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Re: USAGE: front vowel tensing [was: English notation]

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 3, 2001, 5:10
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>That wouldn't surprise me. Lots of strange things happen to any language >when it's sung. That's why (speaking personally) it's so difficult to >figure out the lyrics sometimes, even if you know the language (
Reminds me of a song i like.... I read a transcription of the lyrics, and it shows that it's easy to mishear even very clear lyrics: the transcription was: First i'm high, then i'm solo WHich in my mind should have been: First i'm high, then i'm so low (from "Wild" by Poe) There's also another instance of transcription that's midly amusing: "The ass is a tree and the voices were three" Which i thought should be: "The Ash is a tree and the voices were free" (which makes more sense to me). (From "Amazed" by Poe also) Of course it doesnt have much to do with the ongoing discussion, but i thought i'd share :). ____________________________________________ Communication is not just words. Communication is....architecture. Because of course is it quite obvious that a house, which would be built without the sense, without that desire for communication would not look the way your house looks today.